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The World Health Organization on Tuesday appealed for $1 billion to tackle health crises this year across the world's 36 most severe emergencies, including in Gaza, Sudan, Haiti and the Democratic ...

Scientists at The Wistar Institute have developed an HIV vaccine candidate that achieves something never before observed in ...

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I still vividly remember the first time we observed neurons responding not to audible sound, but to concentrated, precisely ...

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A patient with complete blindness caused by irreversible optic nerve damage partially recovered natural vision after ...

Researchers led by Dr. Claire Foldi at Monash University have discovered that psilocybin, the psychoactive compound found in ...

Results from a pilot clinical trial evaluating the safety and feasibility of repeated focused ultrasound-induced blood–brain ...

"By cleverly combining new techniques for analyzing DNA at the level of individual molecules, we can achieve real breakthroughs in research into conditions such as dementia," predicts Professor John ...

Medical artificial intelligence is a hugely appealing concept. In theory, models can analyze vast amounts of information, recognize subtle patterns in data, and are never too tired or busy to provide ...

This winter's brutal flu season isn't over, and COVID-19 cases have risen recently too. But a new poll taken in recent weeks shows that vaccination against both viruses lags among people 50 and over, ...